Building Rural Communities Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to make grants to rural area-serving public bodies and private nonprofit corporations for technical assistance and training to: (1) assist communities in identifying and planning for community facility needs; (2) identify public and private financial resources; (3) prepare financial assistance applications and related documents; (4) improve management, including financial management; or (5) assist with other areas of need identified by the Secretary.
Gives priority to private nonprofit organizations that have experience in providing technical assistance and training to rural entities.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1632 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1632
To ensure that the Federal government is able to receive the maximum
return on its investment in the rural essential community facilities
loan and grant programs and effective services to rural communities.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 18, 2013
Mr. Southerland (for himself, Mr. McIntyre, Mr. Enyart, Mr. Young of
Alaska, Mrs. Hartzler, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. Stockman, Mr. Ribble,
and Mr. Duncan of South Carolina) introduced the following bill; which
was referred to the Committee on Agriculture
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To ensure that the Federal government is able to receive the maximum
return on its investment in the rural essential community facilities
loan and grant programs and effective services to rural communities.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Building Rural Communities Act''.
SEC. 2. ESSENTIAL COMMUNITY FACILITIES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND
TRANING.
Section 306(a)(19) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development
Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(19)) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(D) Essential community facilities technical
assistance and training.--
``(i) In general.--The Secretary may make
grants to public bodies and private nonprofit
corporations, such as States, counties, cities,
townships, and incorporated towns and villages,
boroughs, authorities, districts and Indian
tribes on Federal and State reservations which
will serve rural areas for the purpose of
enabling them to provide to associations
described in paragraph (1) technical assistance
and training to--
``(I) assist communities in
identifying and planning for community
facility needs;
``(II) identify public and private
resources to finance community
facilities needs;
``(III) prepare reports and surveys
necessary to request financial
assistance to develop community
facilities;
``(IV) prepare applications for
financial assistance;
``(V) improve the management,
including financial management, related
to the operation of community
facilities; or
``(VI) assist with other areas of
need identified by the Secretary.
``(ii) Selection priority.--In selecting
recipients of grants under this subparagraph,
the Secretary shall give priority to private,
nonprofit organizations that have experience in
providing technical assistance and training to
rural entities.
``(iii) Funding.--Not less than 3 nor more
than 5 percent of any funds appropriated to
carry out each of the essential community
facilities loan program authorized in paragraph
(1) and the essential community facilities
grant program authorized in subparagraph (A)
for any fiscal year shall be reserved for
grants under this subparagraph.''.
<all>
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit.
Llama 3.2 · runs locally in your browser
Ask anything about this bill. The AI reads the full text to answer.
Enter to send · Shift+Enter for new line